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"Madam President, Commissioner, Europe currently has the best-educated and best-trained generation of young people of all time. However, this is also the generation with the lowest employment levels and poorest-quality jobs. We in Europe’s public authorities are doing something very wrong.
At a time when we are discussing a reform of cohesion policy, the unemployment rate, in particular the youth unemployment rate, could become a future indicator aside from income.
The future cohesion policy must be about creating employment. There is nothing more urgent, particularly in countries in which half of all young people under the age of 25 have no choice but unemployment. They want high-quality contracts, stable contracts, with fair salaries – the total opposite of the course being taken by some Member States, such as Spain, where antisocial labour reforms are underway.
This is the best-trained generation for years, but their options are mini-jobs, bad jobs, unemployment or even emigration. They expect more from us, and we cannot use the crisis as a scapegoat or an excuse for introducing labour reforms that virtually mean austerity.
Meanwhile, many small and medium-sized enterprises have had to close, precisely because of this crisis."@en1
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